Take Advantage
OF THE MONEY SAVING.
Bargains in Winter Suits and Overcoats
That Now Abdund Here.
You'll not have another opportunity to buy fashionable clothing like ours at such
111 tie prices tor yerrs to come. Indeed you will find it a paying investment to buy a suit
or two for early Spring wear or for next fall; the savings are big enough to pay you to
do this
Don't delay coming any longer than a day or two, as your size garments in the
the styles aud tabnc you want may be gone. Better come to-day and nave first pick ot
thise remarkable values.
Suits and Overcoats as low as Manu
facturer's Price Can Make Them.
Also $1246.75 Worth Ot Rubber Goods.
Men's Rubber Boots, Mioes and Felts you can luy for 2s per cent less tlu'n you
pay at any other store in the county.
*
We are going to close out all our Clothing to make room for Spring as 1 am going
to start a General Store and will need the room, hvery Winter a*ticle must go, regard
loss of price; room must be made for our Groceries.
Also Big Lot of Ladies' Coats and Shoes.
Too numerous to mention here. Remember the pl.ice—JACOß WIHTON.
Tt It your Iriends of this wonderful sale. Please send us your name and we will send
you hand bill.
Sole agents for W. L. DOUGLAS SHOES.
From 3.00 to 3.50. Also received twenty-five cases of boots and shoes for Ladies'
Cents and Children from 95c up;all new gx>Js.notrash. All sizes and low prices.
I'tn .
Reliable dealer in Men's Clothing. ,1
Jacob M. Wihton
MUNCY VALLEY, PA.
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JMM To the Pactfic Coast— to California, Oregon, Washington—
plgpF rounci-fcrip, long transit and return limits, liberal stop-over
The rate is practically on iho basis of one fare for the round
trip. Of course, if you wish to visit both California and Oregon
or Washington, the cost is slightly more.
These reduced rates are in effect on certain dates in months
| I of May to October, inclusive. They apply from aH Eastern points
J 1 vm Chicago, St. Louis or Memphis gateways. The Rock Island
H System will take you up in either Chicago or St. Louis, or at hundreds
/l of other Middle West points and carry you to the Coast in through
fflßl I Standard or Tourist Sleepers with unexcelled Dining Car service.
The Rock Island also affords a choice of routes: on the Scenic
T?'i|/ route you can stop off in Colorado—see Salt Lake City—visit
112 imi'JjfmmA /TA Yellowstone National Park; on the "Southern" route you can go
I;J.-.'■ ' | via El Paso, thru New Mexico, then "up coast" to San Francisco
■j > and onto Portland or Seattle tf desired.
If In short, these Pacific Coast excursions offer an unusually good
§■ j. JW chance to see our western country in a comprehensive manner.
'& '■ m '•?'! •' •' la If you desire togo only as far as Colorado, there are excursion
\ft • rates in effect to that section and return, all summer long,
• VvllC specially reduced June 30 to July 4, August 12 and 13,
v 1 y'lßTl and August 30 to September 4. Extension trips to Ogdn
Frluf mv> Vi \N\" 1 / ill iK oT Lake and return at low cost also.
Sfil IM })]||\ From September 15 to October 31, 190Ts one-way
I 'it!?® II li 11 \ 111 II J \ tourist or 44 colonist" tickets on sale to Cahforma and
yM » || J wJ/jjjm J/ A the Pacific Northwest—about half regular fare.
InL " intereated, aand name and wUrew em tUa voopoa, dni|iiitii|
fyflavV. Vj II Wk wkieh booklet wasted ud to what point you plaßtogo. Name probable'
date of aUrt alao, •« wa mm advira ietmMf witk raap«cM» rate* da
JOHN SEBASTIAN,
IJxl HOUTI IS)
PaM. Traf. Mgr., Rock lilaad SjritMßi .Leave »h»al - ■ 1 fii Jf
CHICAGa D—Ha«ri— -j
OUR COUNTRY ROADS
THEIR IMPHOVEMENT TOO EXPEN
SIVE FOR THE FARMERS ALONE.
A. State and Natlnnul Proposition,
Says C. F. Miller of Kaunas—Ciood
illKliways of Dirt —Wide Tire
Wheels on Vehicles.
At the Kansas gaud roads convention
0. F. Miller, secretary of the Southeast
Kansas Good Koads association, de
livered an interesting address on high
way Improvement. He said In part:
We, as Americans, are justly proud of
our great railway and electric lines,
for America today leads the world in
her great modern lines of transporta
tion. But when it conies to our com
mon highways and country roads no
one will deny that they are not in keep
ing with the progress of our modern In
stitutions and development nor to be
compared with the highway systems of
our sister nations.
This is the one great problem affect
ing our commercial, industrial and so
cial welfare today that is not in keep
ing with the movement of the wheels
of progress in other lines of national
development. The bad and deplorable
condition of our common highways is
admitted and undisputed by all. It is
no longer a question for argument. Th<?
people want good roads. It is simply a
•juestion of ways and means.
Our present gystem of road laws and
roadmaklng Is adequate. We de
pend almost wholly on the farmers for
our roads. It is too groat a burden to
be borne by any one class when all
derive benefits alike from good roads.
It Is a state and national proposition,
and the great and important question
before us Is to arouse the people to a
realization of their responsibility to
favor and work for legislation that will
secure state and national aid. This Is
the only solution to this great question
And now I want to speak of a seem
ing misunderstanding of this good
A BOUGH Tf IP TO MARKET.
WHEN TO BEGIN REVISION.
Time Will Be Ripe When the Ftm
Soap Houses Open.
A correspondent of the American
Economist, writing from Jackson villa
Fla., gives the following answer to the
question, "When shall we revise the
tariff?"
I think It will DO time to revise the
tariff when they begin to start free soup
houses In the large cities.
It Is an excellent suggestion. Thcro
Were no free soup houses In 1892, after
two years of the McKinley tariff. Hut
somehow the people took a notion that
they would like to have some. So they
elected Grover Cleveland and a Demo
cratic congress. Well, they got the
soup houses all right, and ;>l. of
them, even before they g >ior- - Ise
the tariff.
When the revision car K. "re
were more soup house . \ . .it
to fall blast In 189G. Tlw:i <■ ;>:<>
decided once more that l u ti
ed revising, and It d: '. >n
they elected William McLliu.ij a
Republican protection congress. Soup
houses disappeared forthwith. Thei«
has been none for eight years. Pos
sibly Shay may reappear under the
Dlngley tariff, but probably not. But
in any case it would be well wait
on til they do come again before wc re
vise the tariff. The Florida Idea Is a
goad one.
QUEER REASONING.
free Traders Favor Any Treaty That
Annihilates Tariff.
The tariff revisionists and free trad
ers are filled with scorn and anger at
the impudence of the Gloucester peo j
pie in protesting against the reciproc
ity treaty with Newfoundland on the
ground that it would ruin their fishing
Industries. To the ordinary mind it
would seem perfectly natural that any
industry should protest against a
treaty which would ruin It. But by
some peculiar twist of reasoning the
tariff tinker and the free trader regard
the making of a treaty with a tariff an
nihilating clause as a'duty paramount
and superior to the preservation of the
national Industries.
If an Industry Is to be wiped out by
ita operation, so much the more reason
far Its ratification. The eastern mug
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•ant free. Oldest aaencf foraecnrhißpatentß.
Patents taken through Munn A to. receive
tpteUd notice, without Marge, In the
Scientific American.
A handsomely tllnitrated weekly. r,argc»t cir
culation of any sclentlio Journal. Ternn, »3 a
AGAINST THE MONUMENT.
Mr. O. H. Kelley OppoMe* the \atioual
Granite Proposition.
Founder O. 11. Kelley has this to say ;
relative to the proposed monument to .
be croc-ted in Washington to the fouii««-
ers of the Order of Patrons of lln»
baudry:
1 claim that all those who worked with
me In the early days were building a liv
ing monument—one that can speak for it
self. one that cannot bo excelled. In our
fifth degree l'omonu uses the language of
Daniel Webster in his speech at the lay
ing of the cornerstone of Bunker Hill
monument, as follows: "If we work upon
marble. It will crumble; if wo work upon '
brass, time will corrode it: il' we rear tem
ples, they will crumble into dust. But if
we work upon Immortal minds. If we im
bue them with just and true principles, j
the reverence of God and the love of our :
fellow man, we engrave upon somevhing \
that will brighten to all eternity." That j
Is the kind of monument we now have. |
The high moral standing of the member- !
ship of our Order has no superior in any j
fraternity. Without making any compari
sons, it stands side by side with the
church in all good works, and. speaking ]
for Miss Hall and myself, we ask no bet- i
ter monument. Raise your S2S,O<K) and ,
spend every dollar In employing deputies
togo Into every state where the Order is
dormant and revive the good work until
overy state is again represented In the
national grange and thus enlarge the j
monument to which every grange hail j
that Is dedicated adds an embellishment, j
That is the kind of monument all can ap
preciate, and it Is an honor to the living
as well a3 to the dead. In true fraternal
spirit treat all alike and show :o par- ,
tiality.
We find that there is a growing sen
timent against the proposition. As one
writer puts it,"The founders of our
Order nre entitled to the thanks of ,
all now living unci those who will como
after us, and wlint they <11(1 will be re- ;
inenibered as long as the Order exists,
and if it should die it would he llttlw !
satisfaction to its friends to set; n gi- j
gantlc slab calling attention to their j
work." As Brother Kelley Is one of the j
"founders" to whom this monument is |
to be erected his opinion In the matter !
should have weight.
THE CHANGE
Conducted by
J. W. DARROW, Chatham, N. Y„
rrcss Correspondent A'cw l'orlc State
Ora ngc
GRANGE FIRE INSURANCE.
Report** of Severn 1 \pw York Stat*
Asßoclallonn For the Pant Year. |
One of the most profitable forms of
co-operation in the grange is in the
insurance organizations. Below are j
{riven the significant features of vari- j
otis reports recently made:
The Dutchess and Columbia Patrons'
Fire Relief association, with headquar
ters at Millertou. reported on Jan. 1
12,3(10 policies in force, the amount o; !
risks carried being $5,040,000. The
average losses for seven years have
been SI.OB per 51,000 of insurance In I
i
this company. The I'atrons' Fire He
Uef association of Jefferson county re
ported losses the ;>ast year exceeding
those in many years, lightning alonf
having caused 91(5,000 in losses, the to
tal amount of losses being $-Mi,ooo 1
Notwithstanding the large payments
required, there was a saving of over
$128,000 to the policy holders over stock
company Insurance. This assocl-.t' on
uow has about 7,000 policies, w:'b
000.000 of insurance In f">ive ~e i
tal r> -cipi . .•. ; t ; ;w.*o " •
104.57 - v: c •( <• ■" :
Waj :ie < ■> .. -i-J <- • • '-•»
of i T I', e pr Tiei t
coti ■!l;:
$45,000 <• ..
ty Patron ' . ■ Ilel:• 112 as»u«. uitlon, w
headquarters at it-:tavia, has 1,1?
policies in force, covering $2,510,200
The Chautauqua County Patrons' Fire
Relief association has 3,820 policies in
force, covering $7,112,725 of property.
The Steuben County Patrons' Fire Re
lief association has 2,074 policy holder#
and a total insurance of $3,015,100.
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Banking by Mail
is simply a matter of dropping a
letter in the post office —
Write for booklet telling how it
is done.
We pay 3 per cent, interest on
savings, and a capital and surplus
of $450,000.00 assure the safety
of your money.
ULCKAWANNA
COMPANY
404 Lackawanna Avenue
SCRANTON, PA.
IRHEUiMTISW
ILUHSASO, SCIFTTICFTG
■NEURALGIA and I
KIDNEY TR9UBLE|.
■ "5 DKOPS" taken internally, rids the blood m
B of the poisonous matter and soids which , ;
■ are the direct causes of these diseases. j~ 3
WE Applied externally it affords ulmo3t in- Ejj
■ stant relief from pain, while a permanent F3
■ cure is belni; effected by purifying tue IM
B blood, dissolving the poisonous sub- SE
RB stance and removing it from the system. K j
| BR. 9. D. BLAKD KJ
g Of Brewton, Ga., writes:
g ««i i'*d been a sufferer for a nnraber of year* r£-ij
# with Lumbago and Kheumattsm In my arina L .
Band l«g(* and tried all the renicdlea that I could rjsl
H gather from medical t\ orke. and alpo conpulteui r 1
25 wl th a number of the bostphyMdan*. but found j|J
nothlnur that ffavo the relief obtained from p •
>3 "ft-DROPa." I shall prescribe it in my practice s,' j
for rheumatism and Kindred diseases." M lf
lf yoti are snfferioir with Rheumatism. r|
8 Neuralgia, Kidney Trouble or any iiin- U l
.5 dred direase. write to us for a trial battle hi j
Eof "6-DtiOPS.'' and test it yourself. £*£
y "S.DROPS" can be used any length of : ■']
9 lime without acquiring a "drug habit," PI
2 as it Is entirely free cf o•«"Sum. cor;'.no. E* j
•M laudanum, awl tU.'! almilar By
H ingredients.
2 Lars? RUc-Bottle, "B.f»nc PS" (112 00 Bomi)'" !
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Shipped on 90 days Trial. Warranted for a 5
term of years. r
'We Are The first!
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You Must Have
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